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The virus spread through Central and North Florida in January under the guise of the flu and the earliest cases included both residents and visitors, the Miami Herald reported. Claude Dharamraj, former leader of the Pinellas County Health Department, told the Palm Beach Post that tracing the disease within the first two months of 2020…

That message came through loud and clear to Arkansas massage therapist Tracy McFetridge, HuffPost reports, when her state’s secretary of commerce said that anyone who could return to work but kept collecting unemployment was “a fraudulent claim for us, and we will be tracking that.” So McFetridge went back to a job that requires her to…

These are the facts: The Mayo Clinic informed Mike Pence that anyone coming to visit their facility needed to wear a mask. Not only was that information previously acknowledge by the Mayo staff (in a now deleted tweet), Pence himself didn’t deny it when the White House was in Excuse Round #1. Everyone with Pence…

Examples of the disparities are widespread. In Louisiana, 70% of residents killed by the coronavirus have been African American even though they only make up 32% of the population. In Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County, 75% of coronavirus deaths are among African Americans, who make up only 26% of the population. On the sprawling Navajo Nation, the largest Native…

As anyone who can read the previous paragraph can tell you, gyms, barber shops, massage parlors, tattoo parlors, and bowling alleys are not places where one can easily socially distance. For one, they tend to be places where the activity being participated in means hands on heads and bodies. That, by definition is the opposite of…

“There is a stereotypical view of the places in America that COVID-19 has affected most: they are broadly urban, comprised predominantly of racial minorities, and strongly vote Democratic,” demographer and Brookings Institution senior fellow William Frey writes in a post on his new analysis. But during the first three weeks of April, Frey adds, “new counties…

Daily Kos Staff Friday April 24, 2020 · 7:48 AM PDT 2020/04/24 · 07:48 Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Donald Trump’s approach to coronavirus information is dangerous, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN’s Brian Stelter. And while that’s not exactly news in the wake of Trump’s ultraviolet-light-and-bleach-cure advice, Murthy said that before Trump…

Business owners of color were already at a massive disadvantage going into this pandemic. While Blacks made up 12.7% of the population, they owned just 4.3% of the nations’ businesses, according to the 2012 census of business owners. Latino and Hispanic Americans account for 16.4% of the population, but 12% of businesses. And just 1%—ONE PERCENT—of…

Russia For the first months of the crisis, Vladimir Putin was even Trumpier than Trump when it came to claiming to have everything absolutely under control. He didn’t just claim to have “15 cases on their way to near zero”—Putin claimed to have just two cases, both of them recovered. It’s only been a month…

In Florida, for instance, Trump mini-me Gov. Ron DeSantis has actually seen his approval ratings sink by at least a handful of points amid the pandemic, while most other governors have seen a double-digit spike in their approval ratings. The Sunshine State is a nonnegotiable for Trump and while DeSantis was very popular precoronavirus, Trump could…